Openfiler Install
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The first attempt at installing Openfiler went quite badly. Openfiler Driver Issues caused quite a lot of trouble. This page describes what eventually worked.
Hardware
This hardware is compatible with Openfiler 2.3:
- Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 motherboard (supports 4 SATA drives)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 DualCore 3800+ Processor
- 2 GB PC3200 DDR2 400MHz Memory (4*512MB)
- 2 Western Digital 640GB Caviar 7200rpm SATA hard drives
- to be installed as a RAID 1 array
- 320 GB for a NAS general file store
- 320 GB for iSCSI LUNs for ESXi virtual servers to use
- 2 Seagate 300GB Barracuda 7200.9 SATA hard drives
- to be installed as RAID 1 array
- 150 GB as an iSCSI target for WinXP backups
- 150 GB as an iSCSI target for MAC Time Machine backups
- 1 Maxtor 250 GB DiamondMax 10 7200 PATA hard drive
- Openfiler boot disk
- Antec Sonata III case with 500W power supply
Installation
The steps to install Openfiler and configure the basic open filer settings are described here. The configuration and administration of the network storage under Openfiler is captured on the Openfiler page.
- Download the latest Openfiler distribution from the Openfiler Downloads site. Given the hardware selected above the correct download is the "bare metal" x86-64 ISO install image. Openfiler also provides various install images for virtualized environments.
- Burn the ISO to a CD, pop it in the CD drive and boot the storage server from the CD and follow the prompts for the graphical install.
- Initially the only connected drive in the case was the 250 GB PATA, so that made selecting the install drive easy. As per the Openfiler instructions, I created 3 partitions:
- 100MB boot (/boot) partition as ext3
- 4096MB root (/) partion as ext3
- 4096MB swap partition (double the physical memory)
- Set up the networking with a static IP for the box
- Set the timezone
- Set the root password
- Watch the files install and then reboot the box
- Check that the Openfiler box can be administered on the web (defaults are user: openfiler; password: password)
- Change the admin password
- Shutdown the box and connect all of the drives then restart.
- Check that all the installed drives show up on the Status tab
See the Openfiler page for info on configuration and administration of the box.
